Students in this 15-week practicum course apply their emerging analytics toolkit (statistics, data collection & wrangling, visualization, modeling) to provide data-driven deliverables and a formal report on a data-driven problem for your organization. Taken after students complete their foundational skill courses, this course affords students a real-world, client-based opportunity experience to develop and hone the skills critical to making DA useful to various audiences. A significant component of the course is working with professional clients and in-class instruction to develop program management, ethical, creative problem solving, collaborative, and communication skills (written, oral, and visual) appropriate for professional and/or public audiences. Students will synthesize, hone, adapt, and translate their data analytics skills through your puzzle while gaining experience with DA in a realistic context (for-profit, non-profit, government, academic research, etc...).

Students in this 15-week practicum course apply their emerging analytics toolkit (statistics, data collection & wrangling, visualization, modeling) to provide data-driven deliverables and a formal report on a data-driven problem for your organization. Taken after students complete their foundational skill courses, this course affords students a real-world, client-based opportunity experience to develop and hone the skills critical to making DA useful to various audiences. A significant component of the course is working with professional clients and in-class instruction to develop program management, ethical, creative problem solving, collaborative, and communication skills (written, oral, and visual) appropriate for professional and/or public audiences. Students will synthesize, hone, adapt, and translate their data analytics skills through your puzzle while gaining experience with DA in a realistic context (for-profit, non-profit, government, academic research, etc...).